Archives for February 2012

Four new articles published this week in PLoS Medicine, including our monthly editorial and a new Essay returning to the need for mental health to be a noncommunicable diseases focus. In the February editorial, the

You’ve finally managed to satisfy the difficult reviewer and the pesky editors, and your manuscript has been accepted for publication. It has taken many many hours of often frustrating work but it can now be

Three new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine in the research and magazine sections. Michael Delves and colleagues compare the activity of 50 current and experimental antimalarials against liver, sexual blood, and mosquito

A comprehensive study in this week’s PLoS Medicine shows levels of the amino acid, homocysteine, have no meaningful effect on the risk of developing coronary heart disease, closing the door on the previously suggested benefits

Selection of an appropriate model organism is a vital step in good experimental design. A number of articles published in PLoS Pathogens over the past month have touched on this topic… The malaria research community

Two new articles published this week in PLoS Medicine. There is also an update on recent news coverage on the homepage. In a qualitative study reported by Olav Lindqvist and colleagues, the range of nonpharmacological

In December, PLoS Medicine published a paper by An Pan and colleagues, which focused on shift work and type 2 diabetes. The authors found that working night shifts on rotation over extended periods of time

This week, PLoS Medicine published four new articles, including a Perspective piece on a new Clostridium difficile Research Article. A set of cross-sectional surveys by Robert Stewart and colleagues carried out in Cuba, Dominican Republic,

Contrary to current convention by which infection with the organism Clostridium difficile is regarded as an infection that is acquired by contact with symptomatic patients known to be infected with C. difficile, these may account